We spent one night in a bhotel/b up there, just before setting off across Sprengisandur sands [more on them later] which essentially is a desert in the midst of the interior, in between the glaciers Hofsjökull and Vatnajökull [the largest ice cap ... The name Vatnajökull could just as well refer to the countless glacier rivers that flow from the glacier. In fact, in ?old? icelandic, rivers were often refered to as just ?vötn?, or waters (vötn is the plural of bvatn/b). Regards, ...
